{"id":5030,"date":"2011-02-15T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T16:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2011-02-15T11:57:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T16:57:57","slug":"hooray-for-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/15\/hooray-for-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for Ottawa!"},"content":{"rendered":"

H<\/span>ere’s three great links for people who love Ottawa as much as I love Ottawa. (And for the record? I love Ottawa A LOT!)<\/p>\n

First, mad props to the Ottawa Public Library<\/a>. I love the library and I really love their website and new interactive features. I love the ease of popping over whenever the mood strikes me or a bit of information catches my attention and requesting a book online. If there’s no other requests, the book gets shipped to my local branch in Manotick within a couple of days, and I get an e-mail notification when it’s ready for pick-up. Even better, I get another e-mail two days before it’s due. This is a smashing good system.<\/p>\n

You know what just made it even better? I can now do all this on my iPhone, thanks to a new Ottawa Public Library iPhone App<\/a>. How awesome is that? And best of all? Totally free<\/a>. I love this!!<\/p>\n

Second, mad props to Ottawa Start<\/a> and two excellent new resources they’ve published in the last couple of weeks. First, check out their wicked-cool Ultimate Guide to Tobogganing in Ottawa and Gatineau<\/a>. Not only is it a map of all the best sledding hills in the city, but if you click on one it gives you information about the kind of hill, special features and any potential perils. Really, this is outstanding.<\/p>\n

\"Shiverfest<\/a><\/p>\n

Last but not least, also from Ottawa Start, here’s an update to their 2009 list of essential blogs in Ottawa. This year, they’ve listed 26 essential Ottawa blogs<\/a>, and I’m very proud to see I’ve been included. (Thanks Glen!) Some of my favourite blogs are here, and a few I must now check out, but I really like this list because of its diversity — it has a little bit of blog for everyone who lives in or loves Ottawa.<\/p>\n

Ottawa rocks! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s three great links for people who love Ottawa as much as I love Ottawa. (And for the record? I love Ottawa A LOT!) First, mad props to the Ottawa Public Library. I love the library and I really love their website and new interactive features. I love the ease of popping over whenever the … Continue reading “Hooray for Ottawa!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-i-love-the-interwebs","category-life-in-ottawa","category-ottawas-hidden-treasures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5030"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5035,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030\/revisions\/5035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}